From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 8 01:15:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30B116A415; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.200.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E333943D72; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:15:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-67-174-220-97.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.174.220.97]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2006110801150101200nf8hoe>; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 01:15:02 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2A9F31FA01A; Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:15:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 17:15:01 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: VVI HOSTMASTER Message-ID: <20061108011501.GA31450@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: VVI HOSTMASTER , tobez@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org References: <45511C33.3080701@vvi.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45511C33.3080701@vvi.at> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, tobez@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: perl-5.8.8 on 4.11 Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:15:07 -0000 On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:52:19AM +0100, VVI HOSTMASTER wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know are there any caveats on using the ports version of > perl to update the default install of perl 5.005? > > I figure it would be far more simple to do this on a 5.x install since > it requires the port version. > > Thank you in advance, The present framework used on 4.x (that is, mixing base system perl with ports perl) is quite good. I've yet to run into any issues with it on our 4.x boxes. Changes will be made to /etc/make.conf by the installation script to make sure that the base system perl no longer gets built/used during make buildworld/installworld. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |